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Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa presents a free concert by Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks on May 5, 2014, in Marfa, Texas. Party With Death opens.

Free

Music Moves U Workshop

Marfa, Texas

As part of MISD's Summer Shakeup program, Ballroom Marfa is hosting Music Moves U, a workshop led by Dr. Kahil El’Zabar and his band, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. The class is free to attend and open to all students 10 years and older.

Free

DJ Camp 2014

Marfa, Texas

DJ Camp is back! Ballroom Marfa present its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 30 – July 5, 2014 with instructors Faith Gay and Javier Arredondo.

Free

Bonnie “Prince” Billy

Marfa, Texas

Bonnie "Prince" Billy brings his shambling, country-tinged indie rock to West Texas for an evening performance on July 12.

Free

Vidas Perfectas

Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Vidas Perfectas, an all-new, Spanish language version of the classic avant-garde television opera from the 1980s: Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives.

The Marfa Triptych: The Desert

The Overlook at Mimms Ranch Marfa, Texas

The Marfa Triptych is three portraits of West Texas as envisioned by Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds. The second composition, The Desert, is for layered piano, a production that uses means both digital and site-specific to process the acoustic instrument’s sounds and will take place at the Overlook at Mimms Ranch, Marfa, Texas.

Artists’ Film International—Nicole Miller

Marfa, Texas

Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the sixth season of Artists’ Films International, a program that showcases international artists working with film, video and animation. This year Ballroom Marfa will feature the work of Nicole Miller.

Marfa Myths 2015

Marfa, Texas

Marfa Myths is a four-day festival of music, cinema, and visual art in the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer, the festival enters its third year in 2016.

Sam Falls

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa presents an exhibition of new work by artist Sam Falls opening March 13, 2015.

Free

Steve Earle and the Dukes

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa is proud to present legendary songwriter Steve Earle and his band the Dukes at the Crowley Theater on June 14. The Mastersons open.

Free

DJ Camp 2015

Marfa, Texas

DJ Camp is back! As part of Camp Summer Shakeup, Ballroom Marfa presents its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 29 – July 3 with instructor Javier Arredondo.

Free

Desert Surf Films

Marfa, Texas

Ballroom Marfa presents Desert Surf Films - a program curated by Executive Director Susan Sutton - on Friday and Saturday, August 28-29, at 8:30pm in the Ballroom Marfa courtyard.

Free

Äppärät

Marfa, Texas

Äppärät, opening at Ballroom Marfa on September 25, 2015, is about the mammalian hand, and the tools it touches, holds and uses. Taking its title from the name of a fictional post-iPhone device at the center of Gary Shteyngart’s 2010 near-future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labour, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with compulsion; and with death.

Artists’ Film International — Brigid McCaffrey

Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the 2015 season of Artists’ Film International, a program that showcases international artists working in film and animation. This year Ballroom Marfa will feature the work of Los Angeles-based filmmaker Brigid McCaffrey in a weekend of screenings, discussions and public walks in Marfa and the Big Bend.

Marfa Myths 2016

Marfa, Texas

Marfa Myths is a four-day festival of music, cinema, and visual art in the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer, the festival enters its third year in 2016.

After Effect

Marfa, Texas

In March of 2016 Ballroom Marfa will open After Effect a group exhibition offering new interpretations of landscape, sublimity, and spirituality. The program will feature Dan Colen; Loie Hollowell; key works by Emil Bisttram, Raymond Jonson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, and Stuart Walker of the Transcendental Painting Group; an animated film by Oskar Fischinger; and an installation by Arturo Bandini.

Lucky Dragons at MD/HOU

The Menil Collection Houston, TX

As part of Marfa Dialogues/Houston, Lucky Dragons, an experimental music group from Los Angeles, will perform a site-specific work that features a collaboration with Houston-based vocalists, arranged alongside an array of environmental field recordings and live electronics; a composition that lyrically speaks to biodiversity, human ecological impact and climate change as a loss of complexity in a moment of transition.

Free

Marfa Dialogues / Houston

Houston, Texas

Ballroom Marfa, FotoFest International and the Public Concern Foundation will bring Marfa Dialogues to Houston in March 2016 as part of the FotoFest 2016 Biennial. Join us for MD/HOU as we consider the scale of climate change from the perspective of artistic practice, public policy, critical theory, and environmental science.